T3D HDTV & Film

[John Toeppen <toeppen@xxxxxxxx>]

Tony pointed out how 15,000,000 pixels were available in I-Max format. 
I believe that this is a 70 mm film format, so that may be conservative.
This will be better than anything that digital has to offer for some
time to come.  This quality not only costs, it pays.

The only thing that compels me to go to the cinema is when it is better
than home.  As home gets better, so must cinema. The movies that do not
effectively use the large format viewing are better rented as tapes and
viewed at home.  We have digital cable TV with fiber to the local node.

A 21" computer monitor can display HDTV resolution.  While my cable is
hooked up to my computer it does not accomplish this task.  My video
board is nominally able to process this data stream too.

So, it seems to me that the main issue is appropriate driver software. 
Plumb any signal into the magic box, tell it about your display, and the
genie processes the signal into the appropriate format.

My crystal ball also says:

The first common HDTV may be on the home PC, wait and see.  Digital will
get better.  2000 x 4000 will be suitable for pay audiences.  Optically
addressed spatial light modulators are currently up to this task (what
did NORAD use?)Fiber optics can support impressive bandwidth with
suitable wavelength multiplexing. Film will still outlive us all, but it
will not retain all of the markets that it currently dominates.

John Toeppen
(an ex-microfilm equipment designer, still a holographer, laser jock,
and stereo nut)
http://members.home.net/toeppen/


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